..Louis. Training is provided through a rigorous curriculum, local and national mentoring, a 'learning site visit' to a federally funded implementation research project, pilot research, and grant writing...

A collaborative care telemedicine intervention to overcome treatment barriers for Latina women with depression during the perinatal period

..The intervention seems feasible and acceptable; low-income Latinas, identified as depressed during the perinatal period, reported having access to a range of appropriate community services and high satisfaction...

..Sexual violence was generally not associated with psychological functioning. The different types of intimate partner violence were not related to participants' self-esteem. Implications for interventions with Latina women are discussed...

The organizational social context of mental health services and clinician attitudes toward evidence-based practice: a United States national study

..We examined the association of clinician attitudes toward evidence-based practice with organizational culture, climate, and other characteristics in a nationally representative sample of mental health organizations in the United States...

Female caregivers' experiences with intimate partner violence and behavior problems in children investigated as victims of maltreatment

..The goal of this study was to test for racial/ethnic disparities in use of a variety of outpatient, inpatient, and informal mental health services among high-risk youths, with the effects of other predictive factors controlled...

..In contrast, youths enumerated from the juvenile justice system tended to have the lowest rates of use. Additional research is needed to refine our understanding of the factors associated with the observed patterns of service use...

The San Diego East County school shootings: a qualitative study of community-level post-traumatic stress

Lawrence A PalinkasDepartment of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California 92093 0807, USAPrehosp Disaster Med 19:113-21. 2004

..Within one month (March 2001), two separate incidents of school shootings occurred at two different high schools within the same school district in San Diego's East County...